#autonoe

Harmonia and Her Loved Ones

So, in my universe, she's the eldest child of Ares and Aphrodite (and twin to Himeros), but her story is generally very… um, yeah.

The first art shows her and her beloved Cadmus, second shows a bit about her children. Basically, no one got a good ending.

Did you know he was trained by Chiron? That he was considered a hunter so skilled his talent was considered divine, that he was his parents' only child and that he was loved?

Did you know the grief that consumed the household when word of Actaeon's fate reached them? That Cadmus cut his hair, that Harmonia wept and was disconsolate and that his parents... well, Autonoe walked the length of the forest, keeping a sharp eye out for her son, but all she saw were the scattered bones of a fawn. Aristaeus too, had heard his son was torn apart and so fruitlessly, foolishly searched for the bones of a man. (There was none to be found)

Did you know that it was Actaeon's ghost, unhappy and unburied, trapped on the earth, who leaned over his sleeping father and told him of his fate? "You will not find me as you knew me, gather me as a stag." And Aristaeus immediately woke his wife and told her the truth, and together they grieved all the night long.

Just designs of her ladies-in-waiting/slaves mentioned in the odyssey

hippodameia

Autonoe

Eurynome

Actoris

Skeches w/o color

I couldn't find any sources for it. Pausanias (1.44.5) says she migrated to Ereneia in Megara out of grief at Aktaion's death (her son) and the other disasters of her family. Her tomb was shown there, and it's not impossible to suppose that it recieved heroic honours. Nonnos (9. 61) likewise says that she dies but here she shares her son's tomb: "Autonoe shall lie under the earth with her dead son, and Kithairon will set up one tomb for both".